Theory & Society, May 2023 Abstract: Drawing on models of the interaction order, we describe how planning is an inherently social activity. We argue that planning as a practice involves five core elements: mirroring, identifying, …
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Spillover Effects of Prenatal Care Coordination on Older Siblings Beyond the Mother-Infant Dyad by David C. Mallinson, Felix Elwert, & Deborah B. Ehrenthal (2023)
Medical Care, April 2023 Abstract: Background- Pregnancy care coordination increases preventive care receipt for mothers and infants. Whether such services affect other family members’ health care is unknown. Objective- To estimate the spillover effect of …
Peer effects on academic self-concept: a large randomized field experiment by Tamás Keller, Jinho Kim, & Felix Elwert (2023)
European Sociological Review, February 2023 Abstract: Social theories posit that peers affect students’ academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students’ ASC, …
From the asylum official’s point of view: frames of perception and evaluation in refugee status determination by Katherine Jensen (2023)
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, February 2023 Abstract: In 2021, there were 4.6 million asylum claims pending globally. How does the state determine that someone qualifies for refugee status? To understand refugee status determination, …
Hybrid ethnography: Access, positioning, and data assembly by Ruo-Fan Liu (2022)
Ethnography, Online First, December 2022 Abstract: This research suggests three ways in which hybrid ethnography can be used to overcome the shortcomings of single-realm ethnography, in particular, ethnographies that situate solely in the offline or …
Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality by Kate Summers, Fabien Accominotti, Tania Burchardt, Katharina Hecht, Liz Mann, and Jonathan Mijs (2022)
Social Justice Research 35(4): 379-400. Abstract: In most contemporary societies, people underestimate the extent of economic inequality, resulting in lower support for taxation and redistribution than might be expressed by better informed citizens. We still …
The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality by Fabien Accominotti, Freda Lynn, and Michael Sauder (2022)
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(6): 87-102. Abstract: We argue that the properties of status hierarchies, independent of the positions actors occupy within them, have important effects on the degree …
Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries by Theodore P. Gerber, Jane R. Zavisca, and Jia Wang (2023)
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 128, Number 3 Abstract: Sociological research on housing inequality overlooks how the predictors and benefits of home ownership vary by pathway to ownership. The market pathway (purchase) is more associated …
Time precarity at work: nonstandard forms of employment and everyday life by Daniela Campos Ugaz (2022)
Social Indicators Research, Volume 164, pgs. 969-991 Abstract: In the last three decades, the expansion of nonstandard forms of employment has involved a shift in two dimensions related to time: working time arrangements and temporary …
You Will Never Walk Alone: Ethnographic Training as Collective Endeavor by Águeda Ortega, Katherine Jensen, and Javier Auyero (2023)
Teaching Sociology, OnlineFirst Abstract: Despite being intensely sociable, ethnographic research is also deeply isolating. Although fieldworkers may feel lonely, we contend that they are not (or should not be) alone. At the 10th anniversary of …